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i legit spent the entire trailer going oh they recast guy gardener? fair i guess they want someone easier to access, or are they going for some kind of aged up burned out kyle rayner, maybe lean into the artist-drug problem thing. wait what?

it's legit really sad. everyone has where they draw the line into "later prachett" but i would personally call Going Postal the last classic, and it's very much encumbered by the problems that only get worse.

the quality of the prose is declining even in the good stuff. you can map pretty cleanly with the decline of footnotes and increase in speeches, i noticed it first in Thud! instead of jokes there's a lot of speeches about how badass someone is. it is absolutely starting by MR

but they're also now reflecting the compromises or idiosyncratic touches or out and out flaws in the mass market product, so it becomes Waluigi, a reflection of a reflection cargo culting elements and flaws that probably shouldn't be recreated. the flavour goes out the gum, etc.

the people mimicking of course have no understanding of what was appealing with the original product, but can understand it has features which they imitate - swearing, violence, cynicism, a classic rock soundtrack, a loose satire or commentary of toxic masculinity

start with a filmmaker with a particular style and give some artistic freedom (gotg1), then port it to another licensed franchise by tempting with even more (PM s1). reign in that style a little to give it more mass market appeal (Superman) which sets tempo. then, have people mimic the style.

lanterns looks so fucking bad, lol.

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

america needs to be de-christianized and if you don't think so you aren't on the left

Bro, I saw your post and I’m going to read it as uncharitably as possible because six months ago you posted something mean about something I liked and I’ve been thinking about it every day since.

very funny the ruling party is paying any attention to PR now, when their polling is so terrible it would be to their slight advantage but because of that they can't possibly enact sweeping constitutional change. when they're doing well, the opposite. this has been repeating for decades lol

If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?

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i have been in tears all day. hats off

you should be careful, it might come out on targets that really don't deserve it. i understand why the situation is frustrating but i'm the same as horse, i could never vote for harris, she was just very far away from where i am.

on the contrary, i think every proud republican would love to separate themselves from at least one particular billionaire pedophile, but lets be honest prolly a few

i understand completely but like all great art it leaves me desperate for more

i don't think horses can post on bluesky dot com - if nothing else how would they type, they have hooves - so i'm not entirely sure this is a reasonable guess to make

this is my favourite line from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

imagine if every time you wanted to post an anodyne political take you needed to carefully curate it lest hundreds of furious Australians came into your mentions to demand why you're sabotaging the critical Queensland vote and you may begin to understand the bit.

call me an extremist, but i find myself agreeing with radical republican opinions basically every day. i think you'd have to be a real piece of shit not to be a republican

i would have said "an extremely cutting point about social media, America and Americans and the difficulties of existing alongside American hedgemonic cultural power and the extremely thin skinned nature of hyperpolarized social media discourse" but in that it's funny I agree it's a joke

i think at this point it counts as performance art? like it makes an extremely compelling point about Bluesky, the global hedgemon and american's individual role in cultural imperialism and i'm not kidding 1%.

credit where credit is due, i think you might have a point with this one mate

I'm going to be honest mate it seems pretty straightforward to me

in the sense that the purest form of trolling is describing something completely inoffensive and accurate and watching people get very angry irrationally you are absolutely correct

it's true girls, binders are not good for your development!

Drawing of a puppy looking at a fruit tree with the caption; "Be kind to the parts of you that are still growing"

Growing

two types of players - casual players who won't understand what it's supposed to do and may misevaluate it, or system mastery gamers who are going to Google it, ask the discord, w/e. I don't generally think security through obscurity is good design, but I might be hetrodox here eg DS did

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.